Ego: A Defence

The Living Philosophy

This episode is an attempted revaluation of the much maligned Ego. Drawing on Jung, Freud, New Age thinking and the myth of Icarus and Daedalus we pick apart the many meanings of Ego as we try to unearth the infamous reputation of Ego in the culture and to restore to it some of its lost dignity.
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Further Reading:
- Basic Writings of Nietzsche edited by Walter Kaufmann
- The Freud Reader edited by Peter Gay
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⌛ Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:50 Ego's Origins
3:55 The Heroic Freudian Ego
5:40 The Jungian Ego Container
9:20 The Evil New Age Ego
12:04 The Inflated Mainstream Ego Part 1: Nietzschean Decadence
15:59 The Inflated Mainstream Ego Part 2: Icarus and Daedalus